Victoria鈥檚 鈥渟pending bonanza鈥, as the mainstream media called it, was announced on May 4. Being an election year, the state budget was heavy with promises of cash injections for health care, housing, education and public transport.
However, much of the spending announced will be to fund a big increase in 鈥渃ops on the beat鈥, a natural step given the recent strengthening of police stop-and-search powers and the accompanying corporate media fear campaign.
Kimberly Yu
This year, International Women鈥檚 Day (IWD) coincides with the Labour Day weekend in Victoria and Tasmania. It gives an opportunity to highlight how much women have contributed to fighting for workers鈥 rights and civil liberties, and how little they have been acknowledged for it.
Critics of Melbourne's public transport system are preparing to party at Flinders Street Station on December 3 to farewell the much-maligned train operator Connex.
Over September 12-13, more than 400 people travelled to the Hazelwood coal-fired power station in Victoria鈥檚 Latrobe Valley to send a clear message: 鈥淪witch off Hazelwood, switch on renewables.鈥
As part of Palestine Solidarity Week 聴 March 30 to April 3 聴 renowned Jewish author Antony Loewenstein spoke at campus meetings at La Trobe University, Monash University and the University of Melbourne on April 1. The public lectures were organised by Students for Palestine.
If the gloomy predictions are to be believed, this crisis of capitalism will potentially prove worse than that of the 1930s Great Depression.
鈥淭hings will get worse before they get better.鈥 These were the shrewd words of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd speaking on January 20.
The following article is based on a speech Resistance member Kimberly Yu gave to an October 4 rally in Melbourne.
On August 20, activists from the Student Housing Action Collective (SHAC) at Melbourne University occupied four terrace houses in Faraday St, Carlton. The houses are owned by Melbourne University and were used as student counselling offices until 2005.